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- Business News: Universal Music lags behind -- Vivendi is rocking, but not to the sound of music division Universal Music. Earnings at the French conglom are being driven by vidgame arm Vivendi Games, paybox Canal Plus and telco unit SFR. |
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- Business News: Hermeling wanted company to build int'l links -- Pim Hermeling is selling his stake in A-Film, the Amsterdam-based distribbery he set up in 1999, and will stand down as managing director. |
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- Business News: Gibson, Jorda to join business affairs dept. -- Universal Pictures has elevated Jeffrey Goore to head the studio's biz affairs department and added two senior veeps, Jon Gibson and Helen Jorda, to its ranks. |
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- Business News: Trinh, Howze charged with conspiracy -- A former WGA West assistant administrator and another woman have been charged with conspiring to embezzle $17,228 from union funds set up to pay guild members for their works that were sold, distributed and aired abroad. |
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- Business News: Union will not begin talks until April at earliest -- Facing growing pressure to start contract talks as soon as possible, the Screen Actors Guild has dug in its heels and announced it won't start formal negotiations with the AMPTP until April at the earliest. |
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- Business News: New tracking stock incorporates pay, DirecTV -- John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. reported lively subscriber growth at Starz and said a tracking stock called Liberty Entertainment will launch next week, folding in the pay TV biz and Liberty's recently acquired stake in DirecTV. |
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- Business News: Company reports net loss of $18.4 million -- Live Nation Inc., the nation's largest live event and venue management company, said Thursday it narrowed its fourth-quarter loss from a year earlier but posted lower revenue as fewer big-ticket artists staged large tours. |
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- Business News: Reveue slips for broadcaster -- France Televisions' tumbling audience share has dented TV ad revenues in an already weak advertising market. It posted 2007 ad revs down 1.2% from 2006 to e786 million ($1.19 billion) on Thursday. |
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- Business News: Revenue grows 19% in fourth quarter -- For the first time in several years, Viacom can point to its film division as a legitimate engine of growth. |
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- Business News: Company ends 40-year run as indie studio -- The colorful 40-year run of New Line is coming to an abrupt end, costing the jobs of most of the company's 600 staffers. |
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- Business News: Entertainment co. teams with Ticketmaster, TV -- The companies that own concert promoter AEG Live, Ticketmaster and Madison Square Garden are in the process of creating an entertainment concern that will be called Fuse-AEG. |
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- Business News: Universal Music nabs Spanish-language unit -- Univision is getting out of the music business. |
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- Business News: Seven accuse company of bungling bid -- Yahoo Inc. is facing seven shareholder lawsuits alleging the slumping Internet pioneer bungled its response to Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. |
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- The French Drop: Wonder why there's so much confusion out there? Scott Fulton of BetaNews asks Jason Zander (General Manager, Visual Studio Developer Division, Microsoft), what Silverlight will eventually do that AIR and Flex today cannot. The reply: " |
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- Please continue to pray for my brother, my mother, father, and my family. With God everything is possible . Please help them get better and find a good fullfilling life. - Heg from nj |
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- Agreement gives ReachBio exclusive North American distribution rights to pure cardiomyocytes and other novel ES cell-derived products for drug discovery, toxicity testing, and R&D applications. (PRWeb Feb 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- Affinity4 holds its own "Go Red Day" in support of the Go Red for Women movement sponsored by the American Heart Association. (PRWeb Feb 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. |
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- Textronics, Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its textile-based ECG Electrode for use in general electrocardiograph monitoring and recording procedures. The company' |
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- From GodTube to YouPorn, YouTube clones have become almost as popular as the original. There have also been a fair share of Digg spin offs like Shoutwire and Dzone. Now comes a clone hybrid pairing up the basic concepts of both YouTube and Digg into one simple format focusing on the world of surgery and other medical oddities ... Surgg.com. |
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- Utilizing innovative mobile phone and web technologies, U.S. healthcare professionals can now, for the first time, efficiently and effectively manage and care for their chronic disease clients, anywhere and anytime. t+ Medical Inc., a privately funded medical software company that delivers clinically validated enterprise disease management, remote monitoring and wellness solutions, recently completed its expansion plans to North America. |
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- A consumer health book that teaches patients how to work closely with their cardiologists to prevent heart disease and even death. (PRWeb Feb 21, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/heart_disease/car htm |
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- The UK government recently announced positive plans to diagnose more health problems during early stages of development. They will be working with GP's, who are using sophisticated testing methods, health screening facilities and more thorough investigations during consultations. The objective is to prevent the worrying increase of life threatening diseases presently occurring, and to reduce the future instance. Many natural products can help lover cholesterol once the screening has detected the problem. |
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- Serving the International Medical Community (PRWeb Feb 20, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/2008/02/prweb7060 htm |
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- Multi-disciplinary panel of leaders from Health Canada, along with experts from medicine science, engineering and business, to address the nature and causality of adverse responses to drugs. KEY RELATED POINTS: The aging population, many are being diagnosed with long-term and chronic diseases, and are subsequently using multiple medications | Chronic disease (among all populations) accounts for approximately 75% of the annual health care spend in North America with diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular disorders making up the majority. | A doctor shortage problem (because of baby boomer retirement and a short supply of doctors) appears to be growing throughout Canada, parts of the U.S. |
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- Harvest Technologies Corp. (www.harvesttech.com) announced today its President, Gary Tureski, will present at the Third Annual Stem Cell Summit, Hilton New York, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. |
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- WholeFoods Magazine has awarded Barlean's Organic Oils with the coveted Natural Choice Award for excellence in manufacturing the freshest and best selling flaxseed oil nationwide. Flax oil is the world's highest source of organic, vegetable based Omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3' |
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- CoreValve (www.corevalve.com) has been informed that Edwards Lifesciences has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in Delaware alleging infringement of certain Edwards patents. (PRWeb Feb 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. |
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- Johns Hopkins Health After 50 reports on the latest research and findings on how to safely resume your sex life after a heart attack, and what to do in the event of sexual dysfunction after a heart attack. It also offers clear guidelines on the new erectile dysfunction drugs, and what to watch out for if you have heart health concerns. (PRWeb Feb 14, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- At age 20, Vanessa Cirillo suffered a heart attack caused by a virus. She recovered and lived a healthy life until June 2007, when her heart condition became critical. Her heart had enlarged several times its normal size (cardiomyopathy). It was no longer pumping enough blood to sustain her body. She needed a heart transplant but no donor heart was available. |
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- The Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE) a nonprofit organization is calling on couples to show their affection by giving the gift of a preventive heart attack test to their valentines. This release provides background information on the recommended noninvasive tests that can be used to enhance the accuracy of the common risk factor screening protocols in use today. (PRWeb Feb 13, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- Exceptional Risk Advisors, LLC announces the launch of "Physician's Edge365", providing Physicians and Surgeons with increased disability income protection limits to $150,000 per month, filling a deep market void. (PRWeb Feb 13, 2008) Read the full story at http: |
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- DeSilva Phillips, Media Investment Bankers, announced that its client Ascend Media has sold its Healthcare Division, which consists of multiple titles, to Intellisphere, publisher of the MDNG (MD Net Guide) series of medical magazines and Web sites. This deal is DeSilva Phillips' 9th healthcare media transaction since January 2007. (PRWeb Feb 13, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. |
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- Cleveland Clinic's Heart and Vascular Institute releases a new guide for anyone considering heart valve repair or replacement. (PRWeb Feb 12, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- Procedure Designed to Treat Most Common Arrhythmia (PRWeb Feb 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/atrial_fibrillati htm |
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- As the obesity epidemic in America continues to grow, it becomes even more important for overweight patients to understand their choices and use the services of an experienced bariatric surgeon. The doctors at Laparoscopic Associates of San Francisco (LapSF) remain leaders among bariatric surgeons by announcing it will now offer the REALIZE™ band to their patients. (PRWeb Feb 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. |
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- Kim Pollock, a neurosurgery coding and documentation specialist with more than 10 years' experience as a consultant and workshop leader, is rejoining medical practice management consultant KarenZupko & Associates, Inc. (PRWeb Feb 7, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. |
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- pMDsoft 4.0 revolutionizes mobile charge capture by allowing doctors to enter charges anywhere and sync wirelessly automatically. This release responds to providers' needs for a realtime system that not only simplifies their billing, but also improves their practices by streamlining communication and organizing information. (PRWeb Feb 7, 2008) Read the full story at http: |
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- Today, RevolutionHealth.com launches a new online Heart Attack Recovery Center to help the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are recovering from a heart attack or caring for someone who is. This year, an estimated 1.1 million Americans will have a heart attack and approximately half will survive the incident. With survival rates rising dramatically over the past 20 years, heart attack recovery is more critical than ever for patients and their families. |
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- America's Health Coach(R) On a Mission to Empower Americans to Take Responsibility for Their Health During American Heart Month (PRWeb Feb 7, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/2008/02/prweb6835 htm |
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